From Burroughs P R F '65 "English Lit Lowes Whiting Kittredge's Adams House Claverly Hall. I was living near Sears Roebuck, right around the corner from the University of Mexico, drugs in Mexico living the kind of life Harvard designs for you. There seems to be a great deal of middle-class voyeurism in this country concerning reverence for the addict, most of it is nonsense, chemical means of altering metabolism, altering what we call reality, which I would define as a more or less constant scanning pattern. Interviewer What do yol think of the hallucinogens and the new psychedelic drugs -- LDS-25? Burroughs I think they're extremely dangerous, much more dangerous than heroin, the crackle of the universe. Henri Michaux's. They are absolutely contraindicated for creative work--the whole spectrum of sedative drugs. Dr. John Yerbury Dent apomorphine, addiction a central human fact. Can you amplify your idea of junk as image? influenza virus has to make a hole in the cell receptors. Random craving for images. Billie Holiday said she knew she was going off drugs when she didn't like to watch TV. Indiscriminately, every word, bypassing the conscious. Nova Express silence is a desirable state, block of associations, human body into an environment that includes the universe 3 0 memorize the meaning of a passage, without the words making any sound whatever in the mind's ear. When you start thinking in images, without words, you're well on the way. Ox-cart way of doing things, one objection to cut-ups. Gysin 'Minutes to Go' The waste Land, Tristan Tzara. Dos Passos used the same idea in The Camara Eye' sequences in U. S. A. (...the heroin addict is mainly interested in staring at his own toe...) for God's sake keep your eyes open. Karzybsky. Eric Frank Russell--the star virus Deadliners' Science will also discover for up how association blocks actually form, magic, 'breaking through to the grey room' Naked Lunch Dr. Benway. Time, Life, Fortune is some sort of a police organization. Clem accuses him or rustling cattle. Subliminal Kid. Izzy the Push, people read this just as they read any story in Playboy Harvard 1936. yage, Bannisteria caapi The Soft Machine, orgone theories. Scientology the results are much more subtle and more successful than Dale Carnegie's, a little tribal god who has made an awful mess. 'Shucks, Bill' Reefer, My God! certainly not. the nova mob is using the Cold War in an attempt to blow up the planet. Time Life Fortune applies a more complex, effective control system than the Mayen calendar, how to get the cases of Spam up to where there going, sex seems equatd with death, has been degraded for control purposes. What is pleasure? Relief from tension? Well, possibly, not to go out and buy a Coca-Cola. Because I'm creating an imaginary--it's always imaginary--world in which I would like to live." by John Neff 31